Credits

Credit Hour Definition

The Elmira College credit unit is the credit-hour, which is equivalent to the semester hour at other colleges. Earning 1 credit requires at least seven hundred fify minutes of instruction and another 1,800 minutes of supplementary assignments.

Contact minutes for 12 week courses

credit hours awarded

mimimum contact minutes/week

minimum instructional time for 12 weeks

minimum out of class student work/week

minimum out of class student work/week for 12 weeks

Total instructional contact time

1 credit lecture

format

60

720

150

1800

3 credits lecture format

180

2160

450

5400

7560

3 credit studio art

190

2280

475

5700

7980

Contact minutes for 6-week courses

credit hours awarded

mimimum contact minutes/week

minimum instructional time for 6 weeks

minimum out of class student work/week

minimum out of class student work/week for 6 weeks

Total instructional contact time

1.5 credit lecture format

180

1080

450

2700

3780

3 credits lecture format

380

2280

950

5700

7980

6 creduts lecture format

760

4560

1900

1140

15,960

The table below shows the contact hours for Elmira College's Nursing program

Course

Credits

Theory

Laboratory* (Hours)

Clinical* (Hours)

NSG 2010

3

3

NSG 2510

2

2 (72)

NSG 2520

3

3 (108)

NSG3115

2

2 (72)

NSG 3110

3

1.5

1.5 (54)

NSG 3111

3

1.5

1.5 (54)

NSG 3112

6

3

3 (108)

NSG 3210

3

3

NSG 3900

3

1.5

1.5 (54)

NSG 4009

3

1.5

1.5 (54)

NSG 4011

3

1.5

1.5 (54)

NSG 4120

6

3

3 (108)

FEX 4510

6

6 (240)

Total

46

19.5

7 (252)

19.5 (726)

* Laboratory and clinical hours have a credit to contact hour ratio of 1:3.

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